Next 2

 

53 Olympic Runners - SIR DANCEALOT

28 Anne Murray - YOU NEEDED ME

 

Next 2

 

27 Dan Hartman - THIS IS IT (With Legs & Co Performing)

2 Ian Dury And The Blockheads - HIT ME WITH YOUR RHYTHM STICK

 

Next 2.

 

18 Three Degrees - WOMAN IN LOVE

26 Billy Joel - MY LIFE

 

Next 2.

 

7 Chic - LE FREAK

1 Village People - YMCA

 

Play Out Song.

 

11 Chaka Khan - I'M EVERY WOMAN

 

Edited January 23, 201411 yr by smiffj

Shalamar over the chart. No doubt this will be neither the best nor the worst of the evening.

 

This week’s entry in the “Don’t remember this at all” category comes from Olympic Runners. A quick check shows that this was the second of three minor top 40 hits for them. Their impact in me seems to have been about as great as a real Olympic runner who came seventh in a 100m heat. They contained among their number one Pete Wingfield, best known for his 1975 hit 18 With a Bullet and who also played piano for Dexy’s Midnight Runners. Wingfield and tambourinist Mike Vernon were also part of Rocky Sharpe and the Replays.

 

Anne Murray for the soporific section. Looks like someone told her brown was the “in colour” for 1979. It wasn’t.

 

Dan Hartman to gives Legs & Co something to interpret in their usual (lack of) fashion. It will get better, won’t it?

 

Yes it will indeed get a lot better as we get the late, great Ian Dury. Better still, they cut Racey.

 

Ah well, the quality couldn’t last as we move on the the Three Degrees, favourite of jug-ears.

 

Billy Joel marks an improvement in quality.

 

Peter Powell then demonstrates that, unlike Tony Blackburn he knows how to pronounce Chic. Whatever happened to Nile Rodgers?

 

And there’s one final week at the top for Village People.

 

A brief interview with Leif Garrett before going out with Chaka bloody Khan again. Awful, awful, awful.

 

One final titbit. This episode was followed by the first Blankety Blank.

Shalamar over the chart. No doubt this will be neither the best nor the worst of the evening.

 

This week’s entry in the “Don’t remember this at all” category comes from Olympic Runners. A quick check shows that this was the second of three minor top 40 hits for them. Their impact in me seems to have been about as great as a real Olympic runner who came seventh in a 100m heat. They contained among their number one Pete Wingfield, best known for his 1975 hit 18 With a Bullet and who also played piano for Dexy’s Midnight Runners. Wingfield and tambourinist Mike Vernon were also part of Rocky Sharpe and the Replays.

 

Anne Murray for the soporific section. Looks like someone told her brown was the “in colour” for 1979. It wasn’t.

 

Dan Hartman to gives Legs & Co something to interpret in their usual (lack of) fashion. It will get better, won’t it?

 

Yes it will indeed get a lot better as we get the late, great Ian Dury. Better still, they cut Racey.

 

Ah well, the quality couldn’t last as we move on the the Three Degrees, favourite of jug-ears.

 

Billy Joel marks an improvement in quality.

 

Peter Powell then demonstrates that, unlike Tony Blackburn he knows how to pronounce Chic. Whatever happened to Nile Rodgers?

 

And there’s one final week at the top for Village People.

 

A brief interview with Leif Garrett before going out with Chaka bloody Khan again. Awful, awful, awful.

 

One final titbit. This episode was followed by the first Blankety Blank.

 

 

wot a wag, arf :lol:

 

I admit I bought Olympic Runners. And Shalamar. Ian Dury, Anne Murray, Chaka Khan, Village People, Billy Joel, Dan Hartman, Racey and Leif garrett (picture disc). I was a student you see, and I'd learned spending money on books was pointless when you had libraries....

 

I drew the line at Three Degrees though, one should have SOME standards :lol:

 

I mention Blankety Blank as I saw The Match Game recorded live later in the year in LA - the American version - with the late Marcia Wallace on the panel along with David Doyle, the fab Betty White, Charles nelson Reilly and Bill Daly. These names will mean nothing unless you've watched The Simpsons, Bob Newhart, I Dream Of Jeannie, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Golden Girls, Charlie's Angels and were around in the 70's... :o

Strange that Rod Stewarts pretty big classic hit DYTIS fell quite quickly out of the chart?!

 

Interesting to note that Boney Ms Xmas hit fell out if the chart very quickly this week 7-34 a bit more like the falls for downloads seasonal hits although a month later lol!

Strange that Rod Stewarts pretty big classic hit DYTIS fell quite quickly out of the chart?!

 

Interesting to note that Boney Ms Xmas hit fell out if the chart very quickly this week 7-34 a bit more like the falls for downloads seasonal hits although a month later lol!

One reason for this - as suggested by a poster on Haven - may have been the expectation that it could have been the last chance to buy the seasonal hits. They were generally non-album singles and they were unlikely to be available again the following Christmas. Therefore, it was a case of buy now or you've missed your chance.

Yeah I was aware of this post on haven and it seems that will def have been the case. If I had lived then I would have done the same. I do that nowadays when I see a seasonal song with a physical product I have a vinyl copy of The Pogues that I picked up 10 yrs ago when they rerelease it to comply with the silly chart rule of having to have a physical available with a download for it to chart. I also brought the cd version simply because of the top of the pops video being on it which is a great watch!

That may be true for the bigger xmas singles, actually, I tended to have gaps in my large 45's collection unless I paid full price while they were charting. Almost everything else though turned up in bargain bins the week they dropped out of the singles chart and that's where I bought most of mine, Boots, Smiths, Woolies, I scoured all record shops in town looking for cheap singles..

Can never really get into Ian Dury. And who would have guessed that 20 years later Britney Spears would bring out the sequel to their big number one.....Baby Hit Me One More Time! :lol:

Edited January 24, 201411 yr by fiesta

Pat benatar gave it a go with hit me with your best shot. Shot. B-)

Question in a quiz I was at tonight - Who were the first band to perform on top of the pops - I said The Rolling Stone are the ones everyone thinks is right but they weren't - it turned out the answer was The Rolling Stones - anyone confirm this?

Strange that Rod Stewarts pretty big classic hit DYTIS fell quite quickly out of the chart?!

 

Interesting to note that Boney Ms Xmas hit fell out if the chart very quickly this week 7-34 a bit more like the falls for downloads seasonal hits although a month later lol!

 

With the exception for Boney M, the BMRB chart had a quirk of removing records that were falling off in sales. This was done deliberately by BMRB itself. This practice was certainly done in the 1976 and 1977 charts, so it might have still been occurring in 1979.

The Christmas records do tend not be purchased after the event. But back then shops would have stopped ordering copies quickly, so a big seller would soon dry up.

 

Question in a quiz I was at tonight - Who were the first band to perform on top of the pops - I said The Rolling Stone are the ones everyone thinks is right but they weren't - it turned out the answer was The Rolling Stones - anyone confirm this?

I had always assumed it was The Stones as that "fact" had been quoted so many times. However, it appears from some sources that it was actually Dusty Springfield singing I Only Want To Be With You with the Stones on next.

This is the show details that I have for the first TOTP:

TOTP 1964

1-1-64: Presenters: Jimmy Savile & Alan Freeman

 

(13) THE ROLLING STONES – I Wanna Be Your Man

(NEW) CLIFF RICHARD & THE SHADOWS – Wishing Well (film)

(12) CLIFF RICHARD & THE SHADOWS – Don’t Talk To Him (film)

(21) THE HOLLIES – Stay

(6) GENE PITNEY – 24 Hours From Tulsa (crowd dancing)

(5) DUSTY SPRINGFIELD – I Only Want To Be With You

(4) FREDDIE & THE DREAMERS – You Were Made For Me

(10) SWINGING BLUE JEANS – Hippy Hippy Shake

(3) THE BEATLES – She Loves You (and charts)

(2) DAVE CLARK FIVE – Glad All Over

(1) THE BEATLES – I Want To Hold Your Hand (film)

 

Gutted i got it wrong lol!!

On the subject of quizzes, heres a question name a BRITISH all girl group that made the UK top 20 during the sixties.

 

I dont know how many there is,but I can only think of two.

Edited January 28, 201411 yr by fiesta

On the subject of quizzes, heres a question name a BRITISH all girl group that made the UK top 20 during the sixties.

 

I dont know how many there is,but I can only think of two.

 

no idea if this is right, off the top of my head and likely wrong but have a go :lol: , The Paper Dolls, The Vernon Girls, probably too late for the Beverley Sisters....